Clive Bell (musician)

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Clive Bell (born February 1950 in London ) is a British musician ( shakuhachi , other flutes, khene , accordion , natural horn ) and music critic.

Live and act

Bell studied Shakuhachi in Japan with Kōhachiro Miyata for two years. He also traveled extensively in Thailand and Bali to meet and record musicians. He has presented Japanese music in numerous concerts and readings in Great Britain, sometimes in a duo with the koto player and singer Rié Yanagisawa. In addition, he worked with dance and theater groups such as Extemporary Dance , IOU Theater and Optik Theater . He also wrote compositions for the shakuhachi.

From 1982 on, he was in the group Kahondo style active, with whom he had two ethno jazz albums are at nato published. Since 1984 he has belonged to the improvising accordion band Accordions Go Crazy , with whom he recorded several albums. He was also a member of the British Summer Time Ends group , with whom he toured Europe several times. He also maintains improvisation duos , for example with the guitarist Peter Cusack or with Raoul Björkenheim , and is part of Jah Wobble's project Deep Space .

In 2004 he performed in a duo with Sylvia Hallett at the Freedom of the City Festival in London. With David Harrow and Mirai Kawashima he has released three albums as Numb & Number since 2007 . Between 1976 and 2011 he was involved in the recording of 33 albums.

Bell served as President of the London Musicians' Collective from 1998 to 2003 , then as its secretary until 2009. He is also active as a music critic for The Wire .

Discographic notes

  • Colin Wood • Bernard Watson • Clive Bell Downhill (Bead 1979)
  • Rié Yanagisawa & Clive Bell Kurokami: Traditional Music (Saydisc Records 1988)
  • Eating (Sound Language 1997)
  • Mike Adcock & Clive Bell Sleep It Off (Emanem, 1999-2001)
  • Rié Yanagisawa & Clive Bell The Art of Japanese Koto & Bamboo Flute (Gateway 2000)
  • Clive Bell & Sylvia Hallett The Geographers (Emanem, 2004)
  • Shakuhachi: The Japanese Flute (ARC, 2005)
  • David Ross & Clive Bell Recovery Suite (ini.itu, 2014)
  • Asakusa Follies (Cuspeditions, 2017)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry at checkcompany
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Bell, Clive
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician (Shakuhachi) and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London